Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

All that build-up to the Kraken and the entire scene was two minutes. So disappointing. However, I did get a good song from the commercials, so its existence is not for naught.

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Oryx wrote:Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

Hah, saw this thread pop up again in my egosearch, and immediately thought "I should mention CotT. It was terrible."

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Oryx wrote:Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

I suppose you haven't seen Wrath of the Titans then? It's at least twice as bad.

The worst thing is that one of the protagonists senses the future, meaning we are treated to seeing every goddamn scene twice after about the 20 minute mark. And the first 20 minutes are completely pointless.

Also, a multi-minute long still scene where three girls are talking about forgetting tampons, and nothing even remotely related to that scene ever comes up again. Worst implementation of the red herring trope ever.

There is a movie named fantasy mission force, the german trailer states that Jackie Chan is the lead, but he only appears for 20 min or so (The trailer is funny after watching the movie, for one it's full of lies butit also contains scenes which aren't in the german version.) The movie is quite bad, but in the german version 17 min or so were removed. And the cuts lead to some weird jumps. I don't want to see it ever again, but it was quite funny.

Oryx wrote:Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

I suppose you haven't seen Wrath of the Titans then? It's at least twice as bad.

I plan to watch it pretty soon, just to see if they actually managed to make something even worst (maybe zeus riding a pony in his sparkling armor), but to be honest i doubt that anything can actually be "twice as bad" as clash of the titans...

Oryx wrote:Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

I suppose you haven't seen Wrath of the Titans then? It's at least twice as bad.

I plan to watch it pretty soon, just to see if they actually managed to make something even worst (maybe zeus riding a pony in his sparkling armor), but to be honest i doubt that anything can actually be "twice as bad" as clash of the titans...

as opposed to Cott it pretended to be more than just a popcorn movie -- Neeson took the role of Zeus way too seriously, as if he wanted to do Hamlet or something -- plus there were no boobies.

Oryx wrote:Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

I suppose you haven't seen Wrath of the Titans then? It's at least twice as bad.

I plan to watch it pretty soon, just to see if they actually managed to make something even worst (maybe zeus riding a pony in his sparkling armor), but to be honest i doubt that anything can actually be "twice as bad" as clash of the titans...

as opposed to Cott it pretended to be more than just a popcorn movie -- Neeson took the role of Zeus way too seriously, as if he wanted to do Hamlet or something -- plus there were no boobies.

I don't seem to remember any boobs in CotT, so I'm not sure if that works as an argument.

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Oryx wrote:Clash of the titans was the worst movie i think i've ever seen.I could not think it was possible to fail on so many levels: costumes, special effects, dialogues....All of the characters were shallow (especially sam worthington), the story was non-existent; it was a complete disaster.

I suppose you haven't seen Wrath of the Titans then? It's at least twice as bad.

I plan to watch it pretty soon, just to see if they actually managed to make something even worst (maybe zeus riding a pony in his sparkling armor), but to be honest i doubt that anything can actually be "twice as bad" as clash of the titans...

I don't think he has the Sparkly armour in WotTBut I will say that Clash and Wrath of the titans are both stunning cinema compared to In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta et. al, directed by the one and only Uwe Boll, which was beyond dire. And by extension, although I haven't seen it, the sequel, starring Dolph Lundgren, must be just as bad, or worse, it does in fact have a lower rating on IMdB, 3.8/10 for the first movie only 3.2/10 for the second, whereas the Titans movies have a semi-respectable-in-comparison 5.8/10 and 5.9/10 respectively.

Worst movie I've ever seen was the 1972 Piranha. It so thoroughly failed to meet the very lowest of expectations. That is, when I watch a movie called "Piranha", I expect some piranha. Perhaps even gruesome piranha destruction, but at the very least it should feature some of the little guys. There is one close shot of a piranha at the beginning. It is then ~50 minutes before the word "piranha" is even mentioned. Toward the end of the movie, one character is, indeed, eaten by piranha -- not killed by piranha, only eaten after already being dispatched by other means, so the fact that there are piranha involved is entirely irrelevant.

Alternate titles which would better represent the viewing experience would be "Long Sequences of Wildlife Shots Related To Neither The Plot Nor Piranha", or "William Smith's Hearty Laughter" (as simply listening to one of these outbursts will cause your chest to sprout a luscious covering of manhair).

AvatarIII wrote:I don't think he has the Sparkly armour in WotTBut I will say that Clash and Wrath of the titans are both stunning cinema compared to In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta et. al, directed by the one and only Uwe Boll, which was beyond dire. And by extension, although I haven't seen it, the sequel, starring Dolph Lundgren, must be just as bad, or worse, it does in fact have a lower rating on IMdB, 3.8/10 for the first movie only 3.2/10 for the second, whereas the Titans movies have a semi-respectable-in-comparison 5.8/10 and 5.9/10 respectively.

I lost all faith in those numbers when the poastman got like 5 stars or somesuch. Seriously, those people can go to hell.

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AvatarIII wrote:I don't think he has the Sparkly armour in WotTBut I will say that Clash and Wrath of the titans are both stunning cinema compared to In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta et. al, directed by the one and only Uwe Boll, which was beyond dire. And by extension, although I haven't seen it, the sequel, starring Dolph Lundgren, must be just as bad, or worse, it does in fact have a lower rating on IMdB, 3.8/10 for the first movie only 3.2/10 for the second, whereas the Titans movies have a semi-respectable-in-comparison 5.8/10 and 5.9/10 respectively.

I lost all faith in those numbers when the poastman got like 5 stars or somesuch. Seriously, those people can go to hell.

Well all they can tell you is how the general public like a movie, not how you will like a movie.

Don't know if anyone posted this yet, but "National Security". It's a buddy-buddy cop film, with a thoroughly unlikable co-protagonist. If you were to ask the klan to direct a film, they'd come out with something like this. It's, just, ugh. The point of the film appears to be that police brutality is actually brought on by stupid black people, and that said stupid black people are incredibly racist going so far as to "oppose interracial dating- when the man is white". Also stupid black people will ruin your life, constantly harass you, and be treated as the hero in spite of everything. I want to hunt Martin Lawrence down and punch him in the face for this movie.

CorruptUser wrote:Don't know if anyone posted this yet, but "National Security". It's a buddy-buddy cop film, with a thoroughly unlikable co-protagonist. If you were to ask the klan to direct a film, they'd come out with something like this. It's, just, ugh. The point of the film appears to be that police brutality is actually brought on by stupid black people, and that said stupid black people are incredibly racist going so far as to "oppose interracial dating- when the man is white". Also stupid black people will ruin your life, constantly harass you, and be treated as the hero in spite of everything. I want to hunt Martin Lawrence down and punch him in the face for this movie.

I rented that movie years ago, and my little brother played it FOUR TIMES IN ONE DAY. I wanted to choke the little bastard.

I just recently saw a screening of "The Room" which, as Wikipedia states in the first paragraph, is supposedly the Citizen Kane of bad movies. When I got to the theatre, they handed me a sheet of rules, things I was supposed to do during the movie. This included throwing plastic spoons(provided) at the screen whenever a spoon was visible on camera, and shouting "because your a woman" whenever a female character said something outright mysoginistic (many times).

And... Well, it lived up to the hype. Were it not for the audience interaction and a significant amount of alcohol, it would have been eye gougingly bad. Numerous plot holes, recurring characters with no purpose, extended camera shots with talking character's faces cut off by the side of the screen, recycled sex scenes, Randomly dropping in and out of focus, and a main character (also director, writer, producer, and presumably running the publishing company since it bears his name) who rushed his EVERY LINE.

After I got home, I had plans for what I was going to do with the rest of my night, but my brain couldn't even anything, so I went to bed lost amd confused.

Woopate wrote:I just recently saw a screening of "The Room" which, as Wikipedia states in the first paragraph, is supposedly the Citizen Kane of bad movies. When I got to the theatre, they handed me a sheet of rules, things I was supposed to do during the movie. This included throwing plastic spoons(provided) at the screen whenever a spoon was visible on camera, and shouting "because your a woman" whenever a female character said something outright mysoginistic (many times).

And... Well, it lived up to the hype. Were it not for the audience interaction and a significant amount of alcohol, it would have been eye gougingly bad. Numerous plot holes, recurring characters with no purpose, extended camera shots with talking character's faces cut off by the side of the screen, recycled sex scenes, Randomly dropping in and out of focus, and a main character (also director, writer, producer, and presumably running the publishing company since it bears his name) who rushed his EVERY LINE.

After I got home, I had plans for what I was going to do with the rest of my night, but my brain couldn't even anything, so I went to bed lost amd confused.

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART WOOPATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Woopate wrote:I just recently saw a screening of "The Room" which, as Wikipedia states in the first paragraph, is supposedly the Citizen Kane of bad movies. When I got to the theatre, they handed me a sheet of rules, things I was supposed to do during the movie. This included throwing plastic spoons(provided) at the screen whenever a spoon was visible on camera, and shouting "because your a woman" whenever a female character said something outright mysoginistic (many times).

And... Well, it lived up to the hype. Were it not for the audience interaction and a significant amount of alcohol, it would have been eye gougingly bad. Numerous plot holes, recurring characters with no purpose, extended camera shots with talking character's faces cut off by the side of the screen, recycled sex scenes, Randomly dropping in and out of focus, and a main character (also director, writer, producer, and presumably running the publishing company since it bears his name) who rushed his EVERY LINE.

After I got home, I had plans for what I was going to do with the rest of my night, but my brain couldn't even anything, so I went to bed lost amd confused.

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The Arrival is pretty high on my list. Everytime it was on TV me and a friend sat down with a bowl of snacks, started watching the movie and soon started an eating contest just so the bowl was empty and we could legitimately turn off the TV. (That thrice occuring "tradition" started with the first complete watching, where the bowl of snacks was the only thing between us and insanity). There's actually a second part but I simply couldn't stand watching more than the first few scenes, so I'm not sure just how bad the sequel really is.

Edit: Oh, I also have a copy of "Heart of the Warrior" but that movie seems like quite well done trash. Or the producers were stoned. Or something. It's not "so bad it's good", it's "so bad, it's weird as potato -§5 ftaghn naranana"

I'm not sure it deserves a place quite as high (low?) as a couple of the other things you've mentioned, but I'd just like to put in a vote for Superman 4. (IMDB: 3.6/10) That move was.. wow. It was atrocious even in comparison to Superman 3, which was bad even in comparison to 1&2, which aren't exactly stellar examples of cinematography (though #1 does have some strange nostalgic place in my heart).

Also, the Secret of Nimh movie; I know a lot of people like it (7.4 on IMDB) and it does have some nice animation, but I nominate it only because it was one of my favorite books around 4th grade and They Changed It (warning: tvtropes), including making it stupid and killing off my favorite character.

Yeah, I've not been impressed with the "sci-fi" movies that Hollywood has been pumping out as of late. Though I really need to get around to seeing inception. Sci-Fi is supposed to be about philosophy; the future sciency stuff is only there to help create the question, as well as the implications of such technology. Sci-Fi is about the limits of humanity, about what it really means to be human, about whether it's ever right to kill, about what future technology means for future society, the culture shock from actually meeting an alien life form, and so forth. The recent films are things like "oh, it's a prison, but in space", or "it's the decay of Rome, but in space", or "it's Cowboys vs Indians, but in space". Sure, those can make for good settings for real Sci-Fi, but it has to be more than just in space.